Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, May 11, 1993 TAG: 9305110114
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV3 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: PAUL DELLINGER STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: PULASKI LENGTH: Medium
They still will be restricted to ordering from a list of approved textbooks, and cannot order supplies or textbooks not adopted by the School Board.
Each school will get an amount of money for books based on its enrollment. Each principal will be responsible for textbook inventory and ordering.
The idea is to allow more flexibility in instructional decisions and empower classroom teachers to make more of these choices.
The board will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday in Claremont Elementary School at 800 Ridge Ave., continuing its policy approved last year of holding every other monthly meeting at a different school.
It also will hear from Pulaski County High School Principal Thomas DeBolt and representatives of the school's restructuring team on changes being made in the school's program.
The high school group will outline how school involvement and restructuring teams are working together to seek better ways to educate students, and how a new time-use concept could affect the high school schedule.
The board will consider a resolution authorizing Superintendent William Asbury to reassign teachers, principals and assistant principals when necessary to any school in the system. Any such changes would not affect the salary of those involved for that school year.
State law allows this authority for superintendents, but only after school boards have passed resolutions putting it into effect.
In other business, the board will consider adopting a 1993-94 school calendar, hear about possible uses for the Jefferson Elementary School building to be closed as a school next month, hear from Southwest Virginia Governor's School students on an internship program in which they are participating, and get an update on the proposed 1993-94 school budget.
by CNB